Course Details

Speleological Mapping

Academic Year 2025/26

NEB052 course is part of 1 study plan

NPC-GK Summer Semester 2nd year

Organization of speleologists in Czech Republic and in the world, specifics of speleological mapping, underground survey points, used measurement instruments and aids, specifics of magnetic azimuths measurement, procedure of documentation work, surveying methods, processing methods, field surveying in a karst cave, processsing.

Credits

3 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

Institute

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Entry Knowledge

Fundaments of geography and surveying. Methods of suveying in underground spaces.

Aims

Acquaintance with problems of karst phenomena, its classification and preservation. Getting practical knowledge in field of speleological mapping.
Student will be introduced with teoretical karsologie and practical speleologie, especially with speleological mapping. Student will create the map of part of cave.

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Purpose and content of the subject, requiements for obtaining the credit, information sources. Organization of field excursion. Organization of speleologists in Czech Republic and in the world. Specifics of speleological mapping. Underground survey points.
  • 2. Used measurement instruments and aids.
  • 3. Specifics of magnetic azimuths measurement. Procedure of documentation work, surveying methods.
  • 4. Procedure of documentation work, processing methods.
  • 5.-7. Field surveying in a karst cave.
  • 8.-9. Processsing.
  • 10. Checking fulfilment requirements and granting credits.